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Originally posted by Taualumna
Well, of course individual sororities and fraternities "aren't the same thing..." There are different letters, different rituals, different histories, etc... However, many GLOs that we call "sororities" are officially "fraternities," so I'm curious what you mean by fraternities and sororities being different.
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I think in this context the difference is that there is a distinction between an organization which is a coed fraternity and an organization which is an almost entirely female sorority (we don't really market to men, but do accept them as members). It's a different atmosphere.
While Omega Phi Alpha owes a lot to Alpha Phi Omega in terms of our founding and the ideas behind our org, we aren't the same thing. Many of our rituals, traditions, and other practices are different. I know on my campus, we also tend to attract different people - some girls are more APO kind of girls, some girls are more OPA kind of girls, and we all rock
Still, I think it would have been cool if OPA had grown more before Title IX caused APO to go coed - maybe we could have worked out something where the link between the orgs was in the constitutions or whatever, and we both could have stayed single-sex provided each campus had a chapter of both orgs. (Just one of my "alternate history" theoretical things ... no need to comment on this.)